Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/September 2010

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The WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter
Issue 29 - September 2010

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; Project News

  • Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 8,254 last month to 8,334 on August 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 56 is just behind WP:GM who have 58. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 47 out of a total number of 2,218 articles.

{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have twenty one Yorkshire featured articles:

Henry MooreCaedmonSheffield Wednesday F.C.George Calvert, 1st Baron BaltimoreHistory of SheffieldYork City F.C.Joseph PriestleyStocksbridge Park Steels F.C.M62 motorwayValley ParadeWilliam WilberforceHistory of Bradford City A.F.C.Last of the Summer WineEaldred (archbishop)Paulinus of YorkWilfridCosmo Gordon LangThomas of BayeuxCottingley FairiesYorkshire captaincy crisis of 1927

{{classicon|FA}} There are also eleven featured lists:

List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the YearList of York City F.C. managersList of York City F.C. playersList of York City F.C. seasonsList of Bradford City A.F.C. seasonsList of York City F.C. records and statisticsList of Leeds United A.F.C. seasonsList of Scarborough F.C. seasonsList of awards and nominations received by Arctic MonkeysList of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in ClevelandList of Hull City A.F.C. seasons

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

; Article Activity

{{icon|NOFA}} Sheffield FAC not promoted on July 29th

{{icon|GAC}} Sheffield was nominated for GA on August 1st

{{icon|GA}} Sheffield was promoted to GA on August 14th

{{icon|FAC}} Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927 FAC initiated on August 15th

{{icon|FA}} Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927 promoted to FA on August 26th

{{icon|GAC}} Joe Colbeck was nominated for GA on August 30th

; Member News

There are now 80 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the August newsletter:

  • {{User|Francish7}}
  • {{User|Leeds120}}

No members left the project this month: though the number of

active members is still currently low.

;Thanks

  • A very big {{Thank you}} to all the editors who labour away quietly and help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
  • To the football and rugby editors who have done stirling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs.
  • To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist.

{{Great}}

;Priority Articles

The top priority articles that have been identified to date are as follows -

The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.

{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}

; Assessment
Assess and review

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(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)

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{{Thank}}

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; Aims

After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire in April 2008.

Specific aims for the project are:-

  • To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below)
  • To recruit more active editors (See Member News)
  • To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status
  • To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
  • To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive (See this month's feature below)
  • To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members

and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.

;Updates

Last month I brought your attention to the proposals for changes to maps in articles and the newer maps have started to be deployed on some of the Scotland and Wales articles. The English ones will follow on though there has been comments on the loss of some features so this may be revised before mass deployment.

The trial for the pending changes implementation has ended and after discussion a straw poll is under way and now is the time to voice your opinion over the trial and if pending changes should continue to be used or if it should be abandoned.

A further batch of about 10,000 images from the Geograph project has been uploaded to Commons. If you are looking for an image then there may be one available on Commons you just have to search for it! Many of the images are incorrectly categorised at the moment but these are being rectified as they are spotted. If you have time then you can give a hand checking out the image categorisation.

;WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The September 2010 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.

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|VI

|Jun 01, 2010 ~ Jun 30, 2010

|Supertram (Sheffield)

|North Yorkshire

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|VII

|Jul 01, 2010 ~ Jul 31, 2010

|Vale of Pickering

|BBC Radio Leeds

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|VIII

|Aug 01, 2010 ~ Aug 31, 2010

|Wuthering Heights

|Haworth

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|IX

|Sept 01, 2010 ~ Sept 31, 2010

|Rotunda Museum

|Liquorice allsorts

Please nominate future articles for improvement at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire.

; Please bear in mind...

Image:Imbox style.pngThe project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis. The latest listing was created on March 23rd.

  • Monitoring is essential
    Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
  • Moves
    Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR.

; Comments, questions and suggestions about this, or any, issue of the newsletter are always welcome and can be made by pressing the feedback button below...

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